Little League

Juvenile Blue Tit [Cyanistes caeruleus]

 

This bemused baby has been used to his parents feeding him...He knows there is food in the form of seeds, fat balls and, here, peanuts, at my feeders...He just doesn’t know what to do with it.

 

He played around with this peanut for a few minutes, then decided on a sunflower heart, with which he flew off to a nearby branch, and began pecking at it.

 

I thought he looked like a young rugby or American Football player, posing with the ball.

 

It’s wonderful watching all the babies, at the moment, and the noise they make calling to their parents is very funny and heartwarming.

 

Here at The Pixies, where I feed the birdies, at the moment, there are baby blue tits, great tits, goldfinches, coal tits, robins, blackbirds, great spotted woodpeckers and nuthatches. I haven’t seen any baby tree creepers, yet - that would be lovely!

 

 

At The Pixies

South Carrick Hills

SW Scotland

 

 

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